The Children’s Television (CTV) Project is a longstanding research program based out of the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.

Television is a major force in children’s lives, and we think it is important to uncover the different representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and age that children are exposed to on a regular basis.

Our (still evolving) findings suggest that the demographics of characters portrayed on popular children’s television programming present a very different picture than the actual demographics that exist in our country.

Surveying the landscape of children’s television.

Our work is tracking key trends in character representation on children’s television, assessing why stereotyping persists, and investigating what the effects of exposure to this programming are on young children.